In today's fast-paced world, the realms of fitness and gaming have captured the imaginations and routines of millions. The psychological aspects that underlie these two seemingly disparate activities ...

The authors recognized what video game designers had already learned: that people are motivated to make progress—to reach ...

A new study examining the relationships among personality, motivation, and internet gaming disorder (IGD) found that predictors of IGD include male gender, neurotic and introverted personality traits, ...

It's like you can feel its adorably shaped nose pressing into your back. You're trying to assemble a droll (is there any other?) business presentation, and all you can think about is how woefully ...

Using game features in non-game contexts, computers can learn to build personalized mental- and physical-therapy programs that enhance individual motivation, suggest Penn State engineers. "We want to ...

As gamers age, competitive gaming becomes less appealing and genres such as strategy rise to the fore, according to a new study. A survey over over 140,000 gamers by Quantic Foundry found the interest ...

This writer remembers a time when gaming was largely the preserve of children and teenagers, with parents wondering what it was all about. Of course, that very memory makes your scribe 'old', as it's ...

Any good gamer can kick your ass in an online duel, but only younger gamers want to. It seems the older you get, the less competitive a gamer you become. Games research company Quantic Foundry, headed ...